This article was published on the day of a recent ‘women’s strike’ in Israel to protest femicide and violence against women, and before a mass rally of 30,000 people took place in Tel Aviv. Socialist Struggle Movement (CWI) members participated in and supported this strike. They participated at different university campuses (one member, Yasmin Morag, gave a speech to hundreds of students), in demonstrations and at the main rally in Tel Aviv that attracted tens of thousands of people. The rally was particularly significant and was a bold Jewish-Arab protest, defying the racist ‘divide and rule’ in Israeli society.

Since 26 October Sri Lanka has been plunged into deep political crisis. It’s a dangerous state of affairs, especially if the parliamentary conflict spills into the streets and communities. It could also lead to a major economic collapse which would, as always, hit the poorest the hardest...

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Here we publish photos of a banner-drop protest organised by Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales) members on Tuesday, which received some media coverage.

For more than a month now, since 17 November, France has seen an apparently unstoppable revolt from below. A massive tide of very visible protest has swept the country, initially against a rise in the tax on diesel, but rapidly becoming a revolt of the oppressed against 'the president of the rich', Emmanuel Macron.

The following articles are translations and adaptations of articles originally published in the blog of Socialismo Revolucionário (CWI in Portugal): https://socialismohoje.wordpress.com and concern the struggle of the dockers against precarious work in portuguese ports and against the government of the Socialist Party (PS in portuguese), currently supported by the Left Bloc and the Communist Party in parliament.

The clock is continuing to tick for British Prime Minister Theresa May and the Tories. The stakes are high for everyone - May and the Tories and behind them the British capitalist establishment. But also for the working class and the labour and trade union movement. What happens in the next few weeks can be critical.

After three weeks of increasingly angry mass protests, French President Emmanuel Macron suspended the massively contested tax on diesel. It remains to be seen whether this will defuse the mass movement calling for his government to resign.

More people are concerned and anxious: the future of our planet is on the line. The recent IPCC-report claims we have only 12 years to avoid irreversible environmental disaster. Despite the warning signs, the political establishment do not seem to grasp the seriousness of the situation. Many workers and youth do understand the need of urgent action. An historic climate march in Brussels on 2 December confirmed this: more and more people do not accept the failure of the governments to do something to stop climate change.

Over the last weeks, France has witnessed widespread protest against neoliberal president Emmanuel Macron and his government. Close to 500,000 people blockaded roads and roundabouts on Saturday 17 November.